• General Notes

  REFN: 256
  A Jehial H. Wood is listed as an American Civil War Soldier serving the
  state of Pennsylvania, enlistment date 12 October 1861, Enlist Rank Priv,
  Union Army, no age given.  Enlisted I Co. 45th Inf Reg. PA.  Mustered Out
  on 02 March 1865.  Source:  History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. 
  (No verification that this is our Jehial Wood).
  Some records show his name spelled Jehile or Jehiel. 
  Jehial went to Bismark, ND to take up a claim, where he was injured by a
  horse and died in 1887.
  Obituary taken from the Bismark (Dak) Settler, September 29, 1887:
  "At four o'clock on Saturday morning, September 24, 1887.  Jehial
  Wood died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Owens, on Eighth Street
  in this city, of injuries sustained in a struggle with a fractious bronco
  a few days previous.  The deceased was born in Jefferson county, New York
  in 1820.  At the age of thirty-eight he came west to Illinois and Iowa,
  and in 1881 moved to Montana, returning in 83 to Burlington county,
  Dakota, and taking a homestead five miles north Menoken.  On Tuesday
  morning of last week, while he was holding a team by the bits, the horses
  became frightened and tried to run.  Mr. Wood held on to the bit till the
  near horse reared and, it is thought, struck him to the ground.  In
  falling he struck on his head, and one shoulder was broken.  He then rode
  fifteen miles into Bismark to his daughter's to be near to medical aid,
  and after the bone was set rested comfortably about twenty-four hours. 
  Later he became paralyzed, entirely losing his voice, and continued in
  that state till he died.  Mr. Wood was a man highly respected by those
  who knew him.  He leaves a widow and grown family of two sons and four
  daughters.  Rev. W.F. Cook of the Methodist Church conducted the funeral
  service."

Details of Jehial's family with Mary Ferren